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Jerry Izenberg (born September 10, 1930) is a sports journalist with The Newark Star-Ledger in Newark, New Jersey. He was born in Newark, New Jersey. [ 1] His career with The Star-Ledger began in 1951 while he was still a student at Rutgers University, Newark, [ 2] but was interrupted for several years during which he served in the Korean War.
1972. The Newark Evening News was an American newspaper published in Newark, New Jersey. As New Jersey's largest city, Newark played a major role in New Jersey's journalistic history. At its apex, The News was widely regarded as the newspaper of record in New Jersey. [1] For much of its life it had the largest circulation of any New Jersey ...
The paper dropped Newark from its masthead sometime in the 1970s, but is still popularly called the Newark Star-Ledger by many residents of New Jersey. [7] [8] During the 1960s The Star-Ledger ' s chief competitor was the Newark Evening News, once the most popular newspaper in New Jersey. In March 1971, the Star-Ledger surpassed the Evening ...
John Cotton Dana (1856–1929), public librarian and founder of the Newark Museum [ 5] Carl Neumann Degler (1921–2014), historian and Pulitzer Prize winning author [ 6] Adele Dunlap (1902–2017), educator, was the oldest living American (from July 8, 2016, to February 5, 2017) [ 7]
Donald Milford Payne Jr. (December 17, 1958 – April 24, 2024) was an American politician who was the U.S. representative for New Jersey's 10th congressional district from 2012 until his death in 2024. A member of the Democratic Party, Payne served as president of the Newark city council from 2010 to 2012. [ 1][ 2]
The Lucchese crime family's New Jersey faction, also known as the Jersey Crew, [ 2] is a powerful crew within the Lucchese crime family. The members operate throughout the Northern New Jersey area. During the 1970s into the late 1980s, the crew was led by Anthony Accetturo and his protégé Michael Taccetta. [ 2]
First edition (publ. Scribner) The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace is a biography by Jeff Hobbs about an intellectually brilliant young African-American man, Robert DeShaun Peace (June 25, 1980 – May 18, 2011 [1]), [2] who left Newark, New Jersey, to attend Yale University but fell back into the streets when he returned to Newark and was murdered, aged 30, in a drug-related shooting.
Student. Known for. Unsolved death. Jeannette DePalma (August 3, 1956 – c. August 7, 1972) was an American teenager who is believed to have been murdered sometime on or around August 7, 1972 in Springfield Township, Union County, New Jersey, United States. [ 1] Her body was discovered the following month on a cliff (known to locals as "the ...